Zero to ubers done - reporting in
Hello everyone,
Recently I did an ssf zero to ubers restart and since I've made quite a few posts asking for help with choosing a build, I figured I'd also post the final result.
So first of all the character I ended up with was not the one I initially chosen. I've rerolled like 5 times. Getting characters anywhere between early maps to alc and go t16
and dropping them for one reason or another. I've played soulwrest necro, worb elementalist, tendrils elementalist, sbor hiero, soulwrest cwc vd reliquarian and finally
I swapped to the build I did the challenge with - SRS of enormity guardian.
Current character: https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/distressqq-6817/allflamessf/character/Big_Boom_Minion
pob here (config setup for single target) https://pobb.in/89eBSgbGTx3x
The character is actually 98% copied from Pr3vie's doc, his medium/life version. The only changes I've made was basically go divine shield, give up on 4th spectre, give up on grand spectrums
TL;DR what's the verdict? Absolutely fantastic. Superb clear, very tanky and probably the easiest ubers on a regular power level build. I'm not going to compare it to stuff that's totally batshit broken like the current luminary or last leagues minion pact. Couldn't recommend more.
Characters pros:
- Fantastic playstyle for ubers. You dodge, minions do the work
- Superb clear with annihilation support
- Very tanky from early stages of the game
- Guardians ascendancy carries the whole early game without even a main skill
Characters cons:
- SRS - Yeah the worst part of srs build is that it's srs build. With my current gear if I just run with single target supports I can comfortably clear, it's going to be veeeeery slow, but comfortable. Wasn't always the case. On the low end of gear, when you've got 1,5 mil single target dps, which means each of your skulls is at like 200k, they spread out, do no damage, get overwhelmed by breach, blight etc and you fail those mechanics. The dropoff from singletarget to clear dps is insane
- Probably going to get fixed. It's not really a srs build. It's an an annihilation build. Kinda like when you play worb it get tiresome to clear with main skill and you scale herald and your build becomes frostblink herald autobomber with supplementary worb for single target, the same idea applies here, but here it's most likely a bug. See when annihilation support is used by a minion it's inherent characteristics and it's supports are getting passed down to it. It means that annihilation support in this build gains srs's guaranteed crit, then gets supported by crit multi, minion damage and ele focus and then on top of all of that can proc of itself. That interaction makes the whole build and is most likely a bug that will get fixed at some point. Maybe not next league since it's not that popular yet, but it will.
If you want to replicate the build here are a few things:
SKills are mostly unchangeable. It would be hard to fit in anything else. Gemswapping is highly recommened for main skill.
For clear you want to run SRS-minion damage- crit multi - multistrike - annihilation - ele focus
For single target you want to swap to SRS - minion damage - crit multi - multistrike - wed - predator/ruthless
Don''t bother swapping for regular bosses. Only do that for pinnacles/ubers and maybe nightmare map bosses with very hard mods.
Spectres:
The only good corpse spectre I found is perect blasphemer, so I'm using that one. Some good free spectres are arena master and spectral leader.
There are however a lot of good spectre corpses from ritual, like tiger, turtle, warlord, forest warrior, judgmental spirit I wasn't lucky and didn't get even regular version of those not to mention the perfect ones.
Gear:
Wand - you can either fossil craft looking for +2 or essence spam. Fossil crafting is great if you're trying to get your spectre gem level to 25 so you can add one more spectre.
I passed on that since minion damage/minion attack speed and crit multi all scale better than gem levels and are actually easier to hit. Remember you need open suffix for trigger craft
Shield - I ended up with surrender, because I couldn't craft anything decent, but a shaper shield with high block, high life, life on block is bis.
Amulet - Jinxed juju is most likely bis, if you don't have it just run any life/res/stats rare
Rings - I went for recomb here. Alt/alc/chaos spam until good mods then recomb. Even poe2 style recomb kinda works because chance of hitting 2 mod bases is quite decent.
The mods I was going for are life, minion dam and minion attack and cast speed. Then lock prefix, exalt slam 4th mod, craft 5th mod, leave prefix open.
Belt - darkness enthroned is bis, farm it up
Helmet - Here you can also look for up to +2 minion gems. I instead opted for a high life fractured base, then spammed reforge chaos until good suffixes, suffix locked and reforged minion for guaranteed +minion skills. I only got +1 but it's ok, since I'm no going for lvl 25 spectre.
Body armor - There are a lot of things you can do here. I opted for high triple defense prefix, prefix lock, reforge phys for pdr, but you could also go for high life or block. You're most likely either recombinating this or going for a fracture from breach tree.
Gloves and boots - Just look for what you're missing. Life and res/stats (well ms for boots). Since I ended up with good suffixes on boots and suffix lock veiled chill avoid movement speed craft, I added cannot be frozen on top, but just running brine king is ok, you don't need that one.
Jewels:
Large minion cluster - just look for increased effect with some good other stuff. This 10 passive is the only one I dropped the whole time, so it's a settle. I really like chaos res on clusters like that so I'd recommend that one.
Medium minion cluster - Look for blessed rebirth, it completly changes how build feels
Brutal restraint - it was originally there just for dex requirements and I was supposed to take it off, but I actually hit one that gives some good stats so I just kept it. You don't need it, you can fix dex with a fluid motion or just on gloves/rings and run an additional abyss jewel.
Abyss jewels - Best stat pob wise is minion damage if you cast a minion spell recently. Second best are flat phys and minion attack and cast speed. All elemental flat damages are also good, just slightly less good. Try to alt-regal-exalt spam for 3 good mods (unlikely you get perfect 4) and use allflame crafting to corrupt on a 5th mod
And finally a disclaimer. I you see this post, think "oh this is a cool build" and decide to reroll templar, equip srs gem at level 4 and just go - don't. Don't do that to yourself. Just play absolution until you're able to run enormity annihilation setup.